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A Dogged Pursuit to Prevent Veterinary Suicide: Caring for Our Animal Caregivers

Room B

Hybrid
1 CE Hour
Clinical

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Description

This presentation offers an overview of suicidality within the field of veterinary medicine by imparting knowledge about the history and prevalence of suicide, occupation-specific risk and protective factors, as well as warning signs for suicidality in self and/or others. Through knowledge building, resource sharing, and real-time skills training, participants can expect to learn healthy strategies to elevate their ability to care for themselves, intervene when others are in distress, and promote healthy workspaces. Intended beneficiaries include veterinary students/professionals, counseling students/professionals, and veterinary social workers/students.

Target Audience
  • • Social Worker
  • • Counselor
  • • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • • Psychologist
  • • Veterinarian
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to enhance knowledge surrounding suicidality in veterinary medicine and learn skills to care for oneself, intervene when others are in distress, and promote healthy workspaces. 

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify and define 4 components of suicidality.

  • Cite at least 10 statistics related to veterinary mental health.

  • Identify 5 veterinary-specific risk and protective factors for suicidality.

  • Describe 3 warning signs for suicidality.

  • Identify at least 5 healthy strategies to facilitate the mission of preventing suicide and caring for animal caregivers.

References

  • Bartram, D. J., & Baldwin, D. S. (2008). Veterinary surgeons and suicide: Influences, opportunities and research directions. The Veterinary Record, 162(2), 36–40.

  • Crosby, A. E., Ortega, L., & Melanson, C. (2011, February). Self-directed violence surveillance: Uniform definitions and recommended data elements. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Violence Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/pdf/self-directed-violence-a.pdf

  • Örengül, A. C., Ucuz, İ., Oner Battaloglu, N., Ozek, G., & Gormez, V. (2019). Prevalence of psychiatric disorders and suicidality among children and adolescents with thalassemia major—A Turkish sample. Children’s Health Care, 48(1), 120–129. https://doi-org.mylibrary.wilmu.edu/10.1080/02739615.2018.1500290

  • Stone, D., Holland, K., Bartholow, B., Crosby, A., Davis, S., & Wilkins, N. (2017). Preventing suicide: A technical package of policy, programs, and practices. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/44275

  • Volk, J. O., Schimmack, U., Strand, E. B., Reinhard, A., Vasconcelos, J., Hahn, J., Stiefelmeyer, K., & Probyn-Smith, K. (2022). Executive summary of the Merck animal health veterinarian wellbeing study III and veterinary support staff study. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 260(12), 1547–1553. https://doi.org/10.2460/javma.22.03.0134

  • Witte, T. K., Spitzer, E. G., Edwards, N., Fowler, K. A., & Nett, R. J. (2019). Suicides and deaths of undetermined intent among veterinary professionals from 2003 through 2014. Journal of the American Veterinary Medic

Clinical
Social Worker

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1 Clinical continuing education credits.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

Counselor

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

Marriage & Family Therapist

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

Psychologist

Trusted Provider Network is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Trusted Provider Network maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LEPs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0125.

Veterinarian

This program has been approved for 1 hours of continuing education credit in jurisdictions that recognize RACE approval.

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by International Association of Veterinary Social Work. There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
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Dr. Tiana Kelly, DSocSci, MA, LPC, NCC

Dr. Tiana (she/her) is the founder of EmpowerMind Education and Consultation, LLC.  She possesses a Doctorate Degree in Prevention Science from Wilmington University and was awarded the Doctor of Social Science in Prevention Science Academic Excellence Award.  She is also a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania, National Certified Counselor, and candidate for a Certificate of Education in Animal-Assisted Psychotherapy.  She focused her doctoral studies and dissertation research on veterinarian suicide prevention, with a specific emphasis on exploring the impact of DVM/VMD programming on students’ exposure to suicide prevention initiatives.  Tiana’s professional values focus on equipping individuals with the knowledge and skills necessary for risk prevention and mental health promotion.  In addition to her formal education, she has participated in extensive professional trainings related to trauma, sexual and domestic violence, as well as culture-centered disaster mental health counseling. Tiana volunteers for a local service dog organization and is the founder of a Campus Puppy Raising Program – Paws on Deck. She continues to dedicate her time to this program by serving as a volunteer advisor, puppy raising coordinator, and student success mentor.  Tiana also serves as an expert speaker for Not One More Vet and volunteers with their education and content committees.  In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her four-legged companion, Pinella!

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